We like to think and talk about strange and excluded things: from ghosts and UFOs to forgotten history and strange beliefs. See below for more details.
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8pm (doors 7.30pm)Thursday 26 February 2015This event has now sold out. Sorry if you did not get a ticket. We will hopefully be booking it again this year. Please watch this space!
The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NR
Bus / train / tube: Liverpool Street

Coincidences happen, incredibly unlikely things occur, and the apparently miraculous comes about. The improbability principle says that such extraordinarily improbable events are commonplace. It shows that this is not a contradiction, but that we should expect identical lottery numbers to come up more than once, lightning to strike twice, and financial crashes to occur.

Professor David J. Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. His applications interests include psychology, physics, and the retail credit industry - he and his research group won the 2012 Credit Collections and Risk Award for Contributions to the Credit Industry. He was made OBE for services to research and innovation in 2013.

His latest book, The Improbability Principle, appeared in February 2014.
Each regular gathering starts with the Fortmanteau by Scott Wood, our with our monthly round-up of fortean news stories from the month.

8pm (doors 7.30pm)Thursday 26 February 2015This event has now sold out. Sorry if you did not get a ticket. We will hopefully be booking it again this year. Please watch this space!
The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NR
Bus / train / tube: Liverpool Street

8pm (doors 7.30pm)Thursday 29 January 2015£3 / £2 concessions.This event has now sold out. Sorry if you did not get a ticket. We will hopefully be booking it again this year. Please watch this space!The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NRBus / train / tube: Liverpool StreetOne of London's greatest monsters, Spring-heeled Jack has held the city's imagination in his claws since he first appeared as "a ghost, a bear, and a devil" right up to contemporary comics and internet radio dramas featuring the leaping horror of legend.

'The Terror of London': Spring-heeled Jack and the Victorian Metropolitan Press event Facebook page. 8pm (doors 7.30pm)Thursday 29 January 2015£3 / £2 concessions.This event has now sold out. Sorry if you did not get a ticket. We will hopefully be booking it again this year. Please watch this space!The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NRBus / train / tube: Liverpool Street